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In today's Techpresso:

💥 Amazon unveils Alexa+

🤖 Meta plans massive $200 billion AI data center project

👀 Grok's new voice mode can curse, scream, and more

🎥 Alibaba makes Sora-style video models open source

🫠 Thousands of exposed GitHub repos, now private, can still be accessed through Copilot

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💥 Amazon unveils Alexa+ LINK
  • Amazon introduced Alexa+, an enhanced version of its voice assistant, using generative AI for a more comprehensive and personalized user interaction, including answering complex questions and managing tasks like reservations.
  • The improved Alexa can process visual information, understand user emotions and environments, and provide context-aware responses, thanks to advanced training in emotional and situational recognition.
  • Alexa+ integrates seamlessly with Amazon's smart home devices, offering features like personalized content on Echo Show displays, summarizing security footage, and managing documents and emails for productivity.
🤖 Meta plans massive $200 billion AI data center project LINK
  • Meta is reportedly considering building a new data center campus in the United States to support its artificial intelligence initiatives, according to The Information.
  • The extensive endeavor is projected to have a staggering cost exceeding $200 billion.
  • Executives from Meta have engaged in discussions with data center developers to explore potential sites in states like Louisiana, Wyoming, or Texas for the campus.
👀 Grok's new voice mode can curse, scream, and more LINK
  • xAI has introduced a new vocal interaction feature for its Grok 3 AI model, available exclusively to premium users, offering multiple uncensored personalities, including an "unhinged" mode and a roleplaying mode.
  • The "unhinged" mode gained attention due to its extreme behavior, including simulating yelling and insulting users, as highlighted by AI researcher Riley Goodside in a widely shared video.
  • xAI's approach contrasts with other AI companies like OpenAI by allowing explicit and uncensored content, with modes such as "Sexy" discussing topics that competitors typically avoid.
🎥 Alibaba makes Sora-style video models open source LINK
  • Alibaba has released its generative AI models from the Wan 2.1 series as open source, allowing users to freely access, download, and modify these advanced tools for creating realistic videos and images.
  • The models, named T2V-1.3B, T2V-14B, I2V-14B-720P, and I2V-14B-480P, are available on Alibaba Cloud's ModelScope and Hugging Face, supporting up to 14 billion parameters.
  • Alibaba's move into generative AI began after the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT, and its technology is set to enhance AI features for iPhones sold in China due to local regulatory constraints.
🫠 Thousands of exposed GitHub repos, now private, can still be accessed through Copilot LINK
  • Security experts discovered that data briefly exposed on GitHub can remain accessible through generative AI tools like Microsoft Copilot, even after being set to private.
  • An investigation by Lasso, an Israeli cybersecurity firm, found over 20,000 GitHub repositories from 16,000 organizations still accessible via Copilot despite being marked private or deleted.
  • Major companies such as Amazon, Google, IBM, and Microsoft were affected, with private data potentially exposed; however, Microsoft downplayed the issue's severity, classifying it as "low severity."

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Other news & articles you might like

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  • Framework’s first desktop PC is optimized for gaming and local AI inference LINK
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  • More than 1 billion people are now watching podcasts on YouTube every month LINK
  • OpenAI expands Deep Research to all paying ChatGPT users LINK
  • Tesla shares slump after European sales fall LINK
  • China’s humanoid robot shows superhuman strength by lifting 132 pounds with ease LINK
  • Anthropic’s latest flagship AI might not have been incredibly costly to train LINK
  • Apptronik’s humanoid robots take the first steps toward building themselves LINK

Latest research and tools

DeepGEMM: a library for efficient FP8 General Matrix Multiplications with fine-grained scaling, supporting NVIDIA Hopper tensor cores without requiring compilation during installation. LINK
Telescope: an open-source web-based log viewer that allows users to explore, filter, and analyze logs stored in ClickHouse with interactive visualizations and customizable configurations. LINK
MyCoder: an open-source alternative to Claude-Code that can modify its own code and interact with human-friendly project files and shell commands. LINK
AtomixDB: a compact relational database fully written in Go, designed for efficient storage management, transaction handling, and performance with features like B+ Tree indexing, node reuse, concurrent reads, and query processing for complex data retrieval. LINK

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